Chapter Summaries

Chongyang True Venerable, Moon-Plucking True Venerable, and Evergreen True Venerable watched the Firecloud Palace trial and debated whether Chen Beiwu or Moon-Plucking True Venerable’s Holy Maiden would claim Firecloud True Venerable’s Dao lineage. Inside the palace, Chen Beiwu and his companion beasts endured Firecloud True Venerable’s attacks, and Chen Beiwu prepared a decisive sword strike.

• Chongyang True Venerable, Moon-Plucking True Venerable, and Evergreen True Venerable discussed the trial and compared Chen Beiwu’s prospects with those of the Holy Maiden and Evergreen True Venerable’s disciple.
• Firecloud True Venerable revealed that touching the Qilin Bloodstone had planted Fire-Origin Cloud Flame in Chen Beiwu, then ignited it and severely injured him.
• Xuele used Taiyi Sword Lock and Five Reversals to weaken the flames while Golden Egg attacked Firecloud True Venerable, but the opponent countered their techniques with his copper-red lamp and crimson flame.
• Chen Beiwu suppressed the remaining flame seeds and decided not to reveal his companions’ full strength, choosing instead to test Xuele’s sword move and his own Taiyi sword intent.
• Chen Beiwu challenged Firecloud True Venerable to receive one sword strike, and Firecloud True Venerable accepted.

Chen Beiwu defeated Firecloud True Venerable with his Taiyi Heaven-Cutting strike and was chosen to inherit Firecloud Palace’s Dao Lineage. When he explored the Fire Palace Lamp inside the Fire Cloud Cauldron, he encountered a mysterious divine statue and three disturbing Dharma inscriptions.

• Chen Beiwu transformed Xuele into the Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword and struck Firecloud True Venerable, leaving him injured before declaring that Firecloud had won.
• Gu Qinghan arrived and challenged Firecloud True Venerable, while Li Dongbin and Mysterious Altar Yang Lord appeared with greatly increased strength and demanded Firecloud Palace’s inheritance.
• Firecloud True Venerable gave Chen Beiwu the Fire Palace Lamp and named him the new palace master, judging him best suited to inherit the Dao Lineage.
• Evergreen True Venerable questioned Firecloud True Venerable about the Ancient God Cult and examined the fifth-tier God-Delivering Stele he carried.
• Chen Beiwu entered the Fire Cloud Cauldron through the Fire Palace Lamp, sensed danger, and found a faceless divine statue bearing three mysterious Dharma inscriptions.

Chen Beiwu resisted the Ancient Demon Cult’s divine statue and discovered a primordial art of attaining godhood, while Firecloud True Venerable’s betrayal triggered a clash between Evergreen True Venerable and Yuantian True Venerable. The chapter ended with Evergreen pursuing the retreating traitors after protecting Chen Beiwu with a Dao Venerable Edict.

• Chen Beiwu rejected the Fire Palace Lamp and resisted the three sinister arts in his Sea of Consciousness with help from Golden Egg and Xuele.
• Nine-Breath Chaos consumed Chen Beiwu’s remaining fortune, transforming the three arts into the Primordial Abyssal Tides and Boundless Chaos Great Cavern God-Attainment Art, which he began to comprehend.
• Firecloud True Venerable used Ancient Source Blood to restrain Moon-Plucking True Venerable and Chongyang True Venerable and admitted that he had joined the Ancient God Cult.
• Yuantian True Venerable appeared with an ancient god statue and prepared to sacrifice the Great Sen World, while Evergreen True Venerable confronted him.
• Evergreen True Venerable discovered Chen Beiwu endangered by the statue and used a Dao Venerable Edict to shatter it and protect his disciple.
• Yuantian True Venerable and Firecloud True Venerable retreated, but Evergreen True Venerable summoned a world-shaking dragon phantom and pursued them.

Evergreen True Venerable unleashed the Ten-Thousand-Heavens Azure Dragon against Yuantian True Venerable, who escaped after sacrificing Firecloud True Venerable and abandoning the Ancient Demon Cult’s stronghold. Back in cultivation, Chen Beiwu used the Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus while studying an ancient god method, attained his True Self, and found a way forward toward Spirit Transformation.

• Evergreen True Venerable fought Yuantian True Venerable with the Ten-Thousand-Heavens Azure Dragon, devastating the Great Sen World, but Yuantian and Firecloud True Venerable escaped.
• Yuantian True Venerable killed Firecloud True Venerable, then fled as the Azure Dragon destroyed the Ancient Demon Cult’s Small Thousand World and killed its stationed cultivators.
• Moon-Plucking True Venerable and Chongyang True Venerable warned Gu Qinghan and Li Dongbin about the Ancient Demon Cult’s cultivation methods, and Chongyang sealed Li Dongbin’s memory of the method he had encountered.
• Chen Beiwu received the Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus from Evergreen True Venerable and continued studying the Hunyun Ming Hunmang Great Cavern God-Proving Method.
• Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul Yang Spirit transformed and attained its True Self, giving him the understanding needed to unite his Great Daos and pursue Spirit Transformation.

Chen Beiwu returned from the Great Sen World and began his Spirit Transformation breakthrough at Huncheng Peak, passing the first two trials before entering the three thousand tribulations. As the Violet Firmament Venerable and the guardians explained the tribulations’ dangers and rewards, Chen Beiwu’s fate remained uncertain.

• Chen Beiwu helped Xuele and others restore the Great Sen World’s dragon veins for ten years, then returned to the Jade Purity Immortal Sect and requested permission to attempt Spirit Transformation.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable approved Chen Beiwu’s request and gave him Spirit Transformation insights, while news of his seclusion spread through the sect.
• Two years later, Gu Xiao and Shen Yuanbao discussed Chen Beiwu’s impending breakthrough as the three flowers gathered above Huncheng Peak.
• Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg, Xuele, and several pills to complete the three-flowers and five-qi trials before entering the Spirit Transformation tribulations.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable and the Qinghe Guardian identified Chen Beiwu’s tribulation as the three thousand tribulations and explained its mortal dust, transmigration, and dao-bearing stages.

Chen Beiwu awakened from the thousand mortal-world calamities and began the transmigration thousand calamities, where he learned that he had to recognize each death as an illusion to advance. After ninety years, he passed the Spirit Transformation Tribulation and chose the Space-Time Great Dao for his Heaven and Earth Manifestation, then used an Immortal Intent Spirit Object to rewrite reality and continue the unfinished tribulation.

• Chen Beiwu recovered his identity as a Buddha statue when Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji appeared, then shattered the illusion and passed the thousand mortal-world calamities.
• Chen Beiwu entered the transmigration thousand calamities, died while a young woman drained his cultivation, and realized he had to awaken to the old traces in each death before advancing.
• Violet Firmament Venerable and Yuyue Guardian watched the phenomena above Huncheng Peak, and after ninety years blood-red clouds suggested Chen Beiwu had failed the transmigration calamities.
• Chen Beiwu passed the Spirit Transformation Tribulation and began forging his Heaven and Earth Manifestation through the Space-Time Great Dao.
• Violet Firmament Venerable realized the transmigration calamities were not over, and Chen Beiwu used an Immortal Intent Spirit Object to reverse time and rewrite reality.

After two hundred and ninety-six years in seclusion, Chen Beiwu passed the mortal world and transmigration thousand calamities, pioneered the Pure Source Great Dao, and attained Spirit Transformation late-stage. He revealed his new Dao before the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, while its True Venerables speculated about its potential and the tier of his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• Chen Beiwu endured the transmigration thousand calamities again and resisted the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable by stabilizing his primordial spirit and pioneering his own Great Dao.
• After centuries of effort, Chen Beiwu failed the Dao-Bearing Tribulation but forged his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and reached Spirit Transformation late-stage.
• Chen Beiwu appeared above Huncheng Peak and recited verses declaring his attainment of Spirit Transformation and his resolve to follow his own Dao.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable, Qinghe, and Yuyue discussed the potential of Chen Beiwu's Pure Source Great Dao and the possible tier of his dharma image.
• The Xuanyuan Venerable realized Chen Beiwu had pioneered a new Great Dao and considered visiting him, while the Profound Subtlety True Venerable told the Great Vast True Venerable that Chen Beiwu had surpassed his place in the Jade Purity Golden Register Sequence.

Chen Beiwu completed his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation Late-Stage, revealed his unusual Clear Source Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and chose the honorific title Clear Source Wondrous Dao True Venerable. He accepted Great Vast True Venerable’s challenge to exchange Dao insights, and their spar began in a Star River battlefield.

• Chen Beiwu examined how his Dharma-Form Origin and True Venerable body had transformed, then sent his overwhelmed Companion Beasts into his Heaven and Earth Manifestation to recover.
• Spirit Transformation Venerables congratulated Chen Beiwu, and he invited Violet Firmament Venerable, Qinghe, Yuyue, Great Vast True Venerable, and Profound Subtlety True Venerable into his abode.
• Chen Beiwu chose Clear Source Wondrous Dao True Venerable as his six-character honorific title.
• Great Vast True Venerable challenged Chen Beiwu to spar, and Chen Beiwu agreed to exchange insights into their Dao.
• Profound Subtlety True Venerable brought Chen Beiwu and Great Vast True Venerable to a Star River battlefield, where Great Vast unleashed his Spirit Transformation pressure and Chen Beiwu withstood it without moving.

Chen Beiwu defeated Great Vast True Venerable in a sparring match, first dismissing his Azure Dragon Reaches Out Its Head and then destroying his Great Vast Overturning Origin Dharma Image with Rectify the Source and Clarify the Origin. Great Vast asked about the Pure Source Great Dao’s abilities, but Chen Beiwu denied that it could imitate or borrow other Daos and kept its true nature secret.

• Great Vast True Venerable struck Chen Beiwu with Azure Dragon Reaches Out Its Head, but Chen Beiwu let the attack land and then erased it, healing his wound.
• Great Vast summoned his Great Vast Overturning Origin Dharma Image and attacked Chen Beiwu with Heaven-Slaying Origin Art and the Great Vast Six Words.
• Chen Beiwu countered with a profound ability resembling Great Vast’s own Dao, then used Rectify the Source and Clarify the Origin to sever Great Vast’s connection to his Dharma Image and make it disintegrate.
• Great Vast spat blood and nearly fell to one knee, while the gathered cultivators stared at Chen Beiwu’s overwhelming victory.
• Great Vast asked how much strength Chen Beiwu had used, and Chen Beiwu answered twenty percent.
• Great Vast asked whether the Pure Source Great Dao could imitate, borrow, or destroy an opponent’s Dao, but Chen Beiwu denied it and revealed nothing further.

Chen Beiwu accepted appointment as director of the Divine Excursion Department and learned about the sect’s world-exploration tools and the Jade Purity Golden Register rankings. He discovered that Lüxu True Venerable Yin Zhengyuan ranked second, but Yin had no interest in helping Chen Beiwu or involving himself with a child of the Heavenly Mandate.

• Violet Firmament Venerable offered Chen Beiwu the vacant director post in the Divine Excursion Department, and Chen Beiwu accepted the Heaven-Probing Disk.
• Yuyue explained the department’s duties of probing worlds and recording their locations, while Violet Firmament Venerable described the Realm-Setting Instrument’s power and limitations.
• The Jade Purity Golden Register placed Chen Beiwu third, and Violet Firmament Venerable identified second-ranked Lüxu True Venerable as Yin Zhengyuan.
• Yin Zhengyuan left for the lower worlds, reflecting that he wanted no involvement with Chen Beiwu and explaining his research into two methods of bloodline evolution.
• Violet Firmament Venerable suggested Chen Beiwu consult Yin Zhengyuan about Immortal Beast Legacy Species, then noted that Yin might not welcome visitors.

Chen Beiwu attained Spirit Transformation and arranged to remain hidden in the Jade Purity Immortal Sect while traveling back to the Southern Wasteland. He found Shu You and the Beast Taming Lineage under threat from Lian Zimo, who had seized control of the Mirror Moon Sect.

• Chen Beiwu learned that his third-place rank granted him access to the Jade Purity Mountain Range's forbidden zone and three attempts to refine a Creation Treasure.
• Chen Beiwu told his parents, Xu Lingling, and Xu Ziqing that he had attained True Venerable, and he offered to arrange positions for the two women at the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
• Yu Zhaohua received an invitation to Chen Beiwu's Spirit Transformation ceremony and chose a rare treasure as a congratulatory gift, while Xiao Yan learned of Chen Beiwu's breakthrough and planned to use his master's name to claim the Buddha-Hand Fire Lotus.
• Chen Beiwu left a powerful clone in his Huncheng Peak Cave Abode and secretly returned to the Southern Wasteland.
• Shu You found Jiang Yuyan, Yu Pan, Mo Li, and Li Qing captured, then faced Mist Sea True Lord Lian Zimo, who had taken control of the Mirror Moon Sect.

Shu You refused to surrender the Mirror Moon Sect to Lin Zimo, and Heavenly Art True Venerable intervened before Lin Zimo could kill her. Chen Zi'ang then arrived as Blood Demon Venerable and Lin Zimo prepared to challenge him, and he claimed Shu You could slay Lin Zimo, leaving everyone wondering what he intended.

• Lin Zimo pressured Shu You to recognize him as Mirror Moon Sect Master, but she refused and faced his lethal attack rather than betray her lord.
• Heavenly Art True Venerable saved Shu You, freed Jiang Yuyan and the others, and demanded Lin Zimo withdraw; Lin Zimo instead asked Shu You to surrender the Sect Master Seal.
• Blood Demon Venerable appeared and offered Heavenly Art True Venerable a Blood God Pearl to stand aside while Lin Zimo prepared to attack Shu You.
• Chen Zi'ang arrived, prompting Heavenly Art True Venerable to welcome him and Blood Demon Venerable to renew their hostility toward him.
• Lin Zimo challenged Chen Zi'ang for the Mirror Moon Sect Master position, but Chen Zi'ang said Shu You, his saber-skilled maidservant, could slay Lin Zimo.

Shu You wielded the Cold Origin Dragon Saber and killed Lin Zimo, while Chen Beiwu revealed power far beyond the other Venerables and dragged Blood Demon Venerable’s hidden true body into Yuezhen City. The chapter ended with Blood Demon Venerable kneeling and offering to serve Chen Beiwu, who saw through the ploy and pierced his forehead.

• Chen Beiwu gave Shu You the Cold Origin Dragon Saber, and she used its power to kill Lin Zimo despite his three corpses and attempts to escape.
• Chen Beiwu considered using the Pure Source Great Dao through bonded weapons to strengthen loyal Mirror Moon Sect cultivators.
• Blood Demon Venerable escaped with a blood-sacrifice technique while Heavenly Art True Venerable and Chen Beiwu discussed his threat.
• Chen Beiwu used Words Manifest as Dharma and further powers to destroy Blood Demon Venerable’s clones and bring his hidden true body from the Blood Sea Demon Grotto to Yuezhen City.
• Blood Demon Venerable knelt, offered his heart, and pleaded to serve Chen Beiwu, who recognized the deception and pierced his forehead with Dharma-Form Origin.

After killing Blood Demon Venerable and Lin Zimo, Chen Beiwu searched their memories and learned that Lin Zimo had attacked Yuezhen City to earn the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror’s aid in finding Chen Zi'ang. Heavenly One True Dragon contacted Chen Beiwu, offered him a trial, and asked him to locate One Origin True Venerable; Chen Beiwu left wary of the Dao artifact and resolved to seek ways to counter it.

• Chen Beiwu killed Blood Demon Venerable, preserved a fragment of his Primordial Spirit, and searched it for clues, but found little useful information.
• Chen Beiwu searched Lin Zimo’s Nascent Soul and learned that the Heavenly One Northern Nether Mirror had promised Lin help in exchange for finding Mirror Moon Sect Master Chen Zi'ang.
• Heavenly One True Dragon used a mark in Lin Zimo’s memories to contact Chen Beiwu, acknowledged his Spirit Transformation Late-Stage cultivation, and offered him the Heavenly One Trial.
• Heavenly One True Dragon asked Chen Beiwu to find One Origin True Venerable and gave him a jade that would react when One Origin came within ten thousand li; Chen Beiwu declined for now and learned that Zhu Wuya had been sent into Samsara.
• Chen Beiwu sealed the jade, thanked Su Tianhe for his help, and told Shu You and the others he would teach them the great Dao of the Nascent Soul the next day.
• Chen Beiwu considered the dangers posed by hidden experts and Heavenly One True Dragon, then decided to return to the Immortal Alliance and seek a way to counter Primordial Chaos Dao Artifacts.

The Heavenly One True Dragon planned to use Chen Zi'ang's flawed Dao Foundation to control him while relying on him to seize other Primordial Chaos Dao Artifacts. Meanwhile, Chen Beiwu strengthened the Mirror Moon Sect, encouraged Li Wan'er to cultivate, and visited the Jade Purity Treasury, where he noticed an extraordinary silver slingshot.

• The Heavenly One True Dragon considered Chen Zi'ang's rapid rise and decided to keep him as a pawn unless he had no other choice.
• Over three months, Chen Beiwu helped Shu You and the others deepen their understanding of the Nascent Soul Great Dao, then used Jiang Yuyan and the Cold Origin Dragon Saber to suppress Lin Zimo's supporters and restore the Beast Taming Lineage's dominance.
• Li Wan'er gave Chen Beiwu two Nascent Soul Formation Pills, and Chen Beiwu suggested a cultivation method that made her agree to his help.
• At the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, Chen Beiwu found no usable guidance on refining Primordial Chaos Dao Artifacts and considered forming a contract with the Heaven-Mending Eagle.
• Yuyue Guardian took Chen Beiwu to the Jade Purity Treasury and revealed that the Thirty-Three Heavens Sea-Calming Pearl was hidden in its forbidden area.
• On the treasury's fourth floor, Chen Beiwu spotted an apparently ordinary silver slingshot and sensed that it was an exceptional Creation Treasure or Quasi-Dao Soldier.

Chen Beiwu met the Thirty-Three Heavens Sea-Calming Pearl and challenged its Artifact Spirit to a spar to experience primordial chaos power. After the Spirit easily overwhelmed his attacks, Chen Beiwu used Clear Source Profound Ability to tear the Spirit’s robe, revealing the Pure Source Great Dao’s aura.

• Seven-Treasure True Venerable brought Chen Beiwu to meet Senior Sea-Calming, while Yuyue had to return the purple-gold coin and Emperor Brocade Armor she had taken.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the Sea-Calming Pearl had been refined from the remnants of thirty-three Great Thousand Worlds and met its Artifact Spirit in the Yellow Heaven Sea.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the Artifact Spirit’s offer to spar, and his Immortal-Slaying Saber Intent and Heaven-Cutting Sword Intent were nullified by primordial chaos Dao essence.
• Chen Beiwu unleashed Heaven and Earth Manifestation, but the Artifact Spirit collapsed it with a gesture and left Chen Beiwu injured.
• Chen Beiwu restored his Heaven and Earth Manifestation with Clear Source Profound Ability, and his next attack tore the Artifact Spirit’s robe, briefly exposing the Pure Source Great Dao’s aura.

Chen Beiwu learned three methods for refining Primordial Chaos Dao Artifacts from the Dinghai Artifact Spirit and received an inheritance Jade Slip. After arriving on the fourth floor of the Jade Purity Treasury, he and Yuyue encountered a powerful, unfamiliar figure examining a silver bow.

• Chen Beiwu used Returning to the Source Through Purity to return a trace of primordial chaos Dao essence at the Dinghai Artifact Spirit, then stopped their spar after learning how dangerous the artifact's power could be.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit explained the Blood-Contract Refinement Method, Divine-Spirit Entrustment Refinement Method, and Heaven-and-Earth Refinement Method, including their costs and risks.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit gave Chen Beiwu an inheritance Jade Slip containing all three refinement methods, and Chen Beiwu considered using the Divine-Spirit Entrustment Method with the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.
• The Dinghai Artifact Spirit sent Chen Beiwu and Yuyue to the treasury's fourth floor, where they found a plump, unfamiliar man holding the silver bow that interested Chen Beiwu.
• The man recognized Yuyue and asked whether Chen Beiwu was the recently renowned Clear Source Wondrous Dao True Venerable, while Yuyue asked why he was there.

Chen Beiwu tried to gain the Manifestation Bow’s recognition while Zhou Daoheng and Yuyue wagered on how long he would last. Golden Egg awakened at Demon Venerable Mid-Stage and unexpectedly answered the bow spirit’s test correctly, leaving Chen Beiwu wondering whether Zhou Daoheng had misunderstood the bow.

• Zhou Daoheng invited Yuyue to help refine Fire Divine Sons, but she resisted because their previous artifact-refining attempt had gone badly.
• Chen Beiwu chose the Manifestation Bow, and Zhou Daoheng explained that it was a repaired Quasi-Dao Artifact once wielded by Fallen-God Dao Venerable.
• Chen Beiwu used the Treasure-Summoning Token to enter the bow’s trial, while Zhou Daoheng and Yuyue bet on how long he would last.
• Inside the bow, Chen Beiwu encountered its childlike artifact spirit, which asked what it meant to manifest sanctity.
• Golden Egg awakened at Demon Venerable Mid-Stage and declared that manifesting sanctity meant showing off one’s prowess; the Manifestation Bow accepted the answer and said it existed to spread its name and establish its renown.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg underwent the Manifestation Bow’s trial, and Chen Beiwu drew its bowstring four thousand zhang before failing the required resonance test. The Manifestation Bow explained that it sought a wielder with enough cultivation and status to shoot down a Middle Thousand World, while hinting that its current power might no longer match its former peak.

• Golden Egg touched the Bow Pouch first, but failed to resonate with the Manifestation Bow’s intent and returned to the silver-white space empty-handed.
• Chen Beiwu gripped the Bow Pouch, endured its growing weight, and used Tracing the Source Through Pure Origins to imitate the Manifestation Bow’s Dao resonance and form a Manifestation Silver Bullet.
• The Manifestation Bow told Chen Beiwu to draw its bowstring fully; Chen Beiwu pulled it four thousand zhang before reaching his limit and failing the resonance trial.
• Chen Beiwu challenged the failure by pointing out his reputation, but the Manifestation Bow said its wielder needed the status and power to shoot down a Middle Thousand World.
• The Manifestation Bow claimed it had destroyed at least eighteen Middle Thousand Worlds and admitted that, at its peak, it could do so even when wielded by a Spirit Transformation Venerable.

Chen Beiwu failed to win the Saint Manifestation Bow but joined Yuyue in supporting Zhou Daoheng’s dangerous Fire God Divine Son research. While they worked in Whirling Flame Clear Void, Iron Egg began ascending to Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, and his bloodline ancestor-return tribulation descended.

• Chen Beiwu completed the Saint Manifestation Bow’s resonance trial, but the bow refused to follow him despite lowering its requirements slightly.
• Chen Beiwu asked to buy Zhou Daoheng’s specially made Fire God Divine Sons, and Yuyue agreed to help with the research in exchange for one finished weapon or three to four Star God Divine Sons if it failed.
• Zhou Daoheng showed Chen Beiwu and Yuyue the Mingjin Sun Liquid he had prepared for the Fire God Divine Son project and asked Yuyue to refine it with her Life-and-Death Samsara Fire.
• The Mingjin Sun Liquid’s aura stimulated Iron Egg, who awakened his bloodline and began breaking through in Whirling Flame Clear Void; Zhou Daoheng offered to handle the ascension formalities.
• A year later, Chen Beiwu sensed Iron Egg’s breakthrough, and the bloodline ancestor-return tribulation began as black radiance engulfed the lava firmament.